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Introduction to Educational Research: A Critical Thinking Approach
Engaging, informative, and nontechnical, Introduction to Educational Research: A Critical Thinking Approach, Second Edition was written and organized specifically for students intending to conduct future educational research. It enables students to think clearly and critically about the process of research and illustrates how easily research can be misinterpreted. The author empowers educators and makes research truly accessible by equipping readers with the reasoning and thinking skills needed to understand and critically evaluate empirical studies across all areas of education. Students are guided through the stages of the research process: thinking about research, formulating hypotheses, selecting appropriate research designs, collecting and analyzing statistical and qualitative data, and completing research analyses and critiques. As a result, students will better understand research as an integrated process, as well as show how and why researchers think like they do.
526 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 8, 2005
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September 18, 2019
Probably the least coherent textbook I've ever read in my life in the most boring, and hard to follow course format I've ever experienced.
The text makes a lot of assertions, and mid-sentence / paragraph, contradicts those assertions without using but or except. It's almost as if the person writing this book was trying their hardest to explain from their brain but failing to see the cognitive leaps we would have to follow without correct syntax.
It's like someone who really loves the physics of triangles, but doesn't walk you through it step by step. The book is packed dense with information, but assumes that students reading this have spent the past 5 years peering over population samples and standard deviation. Idealistic, but not reality.
The text makes a lot of assertions, and mid-sentence / paragraph, contradicts those assertions without using but or except. It's almost as if the person writing this book was trying their hardest to explain from their brain but failing to see the cognitive leaps we would have to follow without correct syntax.
It's like someone who really loves the physics of triangles, but doesn't walk you through it step by step. The book is packed dense with information, but assumes that students reading this have spent the past 5 years peering over population samples and standard deviation. Idealistic, but not reality.
December 27, 2023
Riveting!
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